New releases on DVD : ‘Life of Pi’
Also reviewed: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ ‘Smashed’ and ‘This Must Be the Place.’ Wuthering Heights
March 10, 2013
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Also reviewed: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ ‘Smashed’ and ‘This Must Be the Place.’ Wuthering Heights
DVD shoppers can’t get enough of “Twilight.â€
Fox’s “Skyfall” remained atop the DVD sales chart for the second consecutive week since its release, holding on to the top spot despite last week’s DVD release of the Academy Award-winning “Argo.”
Sarah Silverman, the Sklar Brothers, Dana Gould and Aziz Ansari are among the comedians who will be presenting their favorite movies at the 2nd Wayne Federman Film Festival Thursday through Saturday at the Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theatre.
Best picture nominees ‘Lincoln’ and ‘Les Miserables’ resonated with older filmgoers, and their box-office success could lead to green lights for similar projects. The big winners at this year’s Academy Awards: adult moviegoers.
In its first week of release on DVD and Blue-ray, Fox’s “Skyfall” — the latest James Bond installment — topped DVD and Blue-ray sales chart, knocking “Hotel Transylvania” out of the No. 1 spot.
In its first week of release on DVD and Blue-ray, Denzel Washington’s action-thriller “Flight†soared to the top of the rental chart but failed to knock “Hotel Transylvania” out of its No. 1 spot in the sales rankings.
New York Times op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd is the latest to lash out at the liberties taken with historical accuracy in movies contending for Oscars this year.
Anyone who missed Petra Haden’s utterly charming performance recently at the Getty Museum with music from her new album, “Petra Goes to the Movies,†has another chance on Saturday at L.A.’s Unitarian Universalist Church.
The low-budget westerns, noirs, serials and other films were fast and entertaining and, for some, launch pads to stardom. Of today’s directors, Quentin Tarantino owes much to the genre. B-movies, those low-budget, low-prestige genre films that were fan favorites for decades, have an enduring place in Hollywood history.